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post #1 of 14
4/30/03 at 4:33pm
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Ok, check this one out...
When I was a wee lad, my sister and I used to watch movies on Saturday afternoons on channel 9(WWOR here in NJ). They would show various movie at 1 and 3 and sometimes even at 5. They always cycled through the movies, but two movies that were on all the time, always together were:

Devil Dog: Hound of Hell and Tourist Trap.

Many of my fond memories of childhood were of us cowering in the living room because of these two movies. And to this day I have a soft spot for both of them...My sister still can't watch Tourist Trap all the way through without covering her eyes.

Anyone else have memories like this?
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post #2 of 14
4/30/03 at 4:50pm
Tons and tons and tons of memories....all the Universals, Hammers, etc, but the two movies that stand in my mind the most at seeing over and over again on my local horror host's show were "Them" and "Attack of the Killer Shrews." I coldn't get enough of those flicks.
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post #3 of 14
5/1/03 at 1:05am
dude, when I saw this thread, TOURIST TRAP immediately came to mind ... We probably saw the same broadcast b/c I'm here in NJ also, and saw it on channel 9 ... Awesome film
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post #4 of 14
5/1/03 at 8:55am
In the Chicago area, I remember while growing up, coming home from school, and ABC would have a 3:00 or 3:30pm movie every day. And they were often theme weeks. Like Godzilla week, Planet of the Apes week, Dracula week, stuff like that.

I also remember staying up late on many occasions to catch the movie Killdozer.
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post #5 of 14
5/1/03 at 9:39am
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Hey elmie...

Do you remember channel 11 (WPIX at the time) had Dr. Morgus on Saturday afternoons at 1:00 also?

I must have seen War of the Gargantuas on that show a zillion times...
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post #6 of 14
5/1/03 at 11:39am
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Tv was so much better back then.

There were so many theatrical horror movies that I saw on TV for the first time and made for TV movies were a lot better than what we have now.
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post #7 of 14
5/1/03 at 1:14pm
I totally remember WLS-7 showing movies after school - I think that's where I saw "King Kong" (1933) first.
Saturdays on WFLD-32 I remember all the "Godzilla" movies, "Killer Shrews", Naschy, "Mushroom People", AIP "Poe" movies...great stuff. This was before Son of Svengoolie. My earliest memories of the Universal stuff was on Friday nights- "Creature Features" on WGN-9. Scared the crap out of me - early to mid '70s.
Man, those were the days.
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post #8 of 14
5/1/03 at 1:31pm
I enjoyed Commander USA as a teenager. I discovered the Aztec Mummy series there.
When I was a kid living on the South Jersey side of Philadelphia, we had great Saturday afternoon shows. Theater Bizarre, Creature Double Feature, Son of Svengali, and the local legend himself, Dr. Shock.
It's a shame these shows don't exist anymore. They would be a great way to introduce young impressionable minds to classic horror and sci-fi. I know most of this stuff is on video and/or DVD, but only the fans know to search for it. Kids today won't know to look for this stuff if afternoon and late-night T.V. continues to show Montel williams and infomercials. What a waste of airtime.
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post #9 of 14
5/2/03 at 5:09am
Quote:
thedudeabides:
Hey elmie...

Do you remember channel 11 (WPIX at the time) had Dr. Morgus on Saturday afternoons at 1:00 also?

I must have seen War of the Gargantuas on that show a zillion times...
Damn, I don't remember Dr Morgus ... what year are we talkin' here ??? ... Maybe my memory needs a little push ... I do remember seeing WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS a number of times ...
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post #10 of 14
5/2/03 at 5:15am
Blood on satan's claw.....

...saw that on Elvira's Mistress of the Dark show...

..LOVED IT!!!

Satanic Sleaze cheese...
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post #11 of 14
5/5/03 at 10:39pm
Staying up to watch Chiller Theater on Ch.11. It had a great opening with a hand rising out of a river of blood with a black tree in the backround. The best was The Crawling Eye and Manster. Horror Hotel was a great late-night treat.
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post #12 of 14
5/6/03 at 12:03am
I remember seeing a movie way back when that used to scare the hell out of me as a wee, wee lad but I haven't seen it since then and I don't know what it was called. All I remember was a giant Devil Fish and at the end a guy gets dragged down into the depths by it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Devil Dog ruled back in the day.

Rab, I remember the 3:00 shows for sure. Horror was so popular back then what happened?
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post #13 of 14
5/6/03 at 11:40am
Oh how I horribly miss the Sundays spent in front of the tube. Despite my mom's constant "It's far too nice a day to spend inside watching TV." How I loved watching Elvira's Movie Macabra. Poor kids today, I pitty them.
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post #14 of 14
5/9/03 at 6:06am
Creature Double Feature on a station out of Cambridge Mass. Usually on Saturdays, sometimes Sundays. Sometimes both. (And once or twice on a summer weeknight promotion thing.. IN 3D!)

Between it, and WPIX 11 out of New York, I got to see lots and lots of lovely horror films when cable was still young and not every station was an affiliate of somebody.

Return of the Living Dead, almost all the Godzilla movies, Universal Monsters..

I think a CT station, channel 20 used to have lots of cool horror flicks too. Halloween night they used to have an all nighter depending on the day. Nothing like catching Fright Night, Halloween 2, then a Universal Monsters flick to finish off a day..

Then of course, USA and their old Up All Night with Rhonda and that loud guy are responsible for me catching a few more slasher flicks, and of course Evil Dead and the Toxic Avenger...

Geez, the early 90s pretty much marked the end of cool horror flicks on basic cable..

But if it were not for those early Creature Double Features, I doubt I would like horror at all.
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